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Oswald Ludwig Pohl (German: [ˈɔsvalt ˈpoːl] ⓘ; 30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head administrator of the Nazi concentration camps, he was a key figure in the Final Solution, the genocide of the European Jews. After the war ...
Oswald Ludwig Pohl war ein deutscher SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. Pohl war als Leiter des SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamtes maßgeblich an der Durchführung des Holocaust beteiligt. Als Kriegsverbrecher wurde Pohl während des Nürnberger Prozesses gegen das Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt der SS zum Tode verurteilt und ...
Oswald Pohl was a Nazi official and member of the SS (with a rank of SS-Obergruppenführer), involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Endlösung (“Final Solution”).
Oswald Pohl After serving in the First World War Pohl entered the Nazi Party in 1922, and four years later was made an SA Leader. A naval officer by profession, Pohl rose to the position of Senior Paymaster captain.
Oswald Pohl was the head of the SS office that managed the forced-labor camps and industries during World War II. He was tortured and coerced into confessing to the extermination of Jews, but his wartime documents show that he focused on maximizing labor output and had no conflict with Himmler.
He objected to the sentence: “The destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, including the deportation or extermination of more than 56,000 Jews, was personally committed by him [Oswald Pohl].” According to Dehler, Pohl destroyed the ghetto but not its inhabitants .
Oswald Pohl was a naval officer and a high-ranking SS official who oversaw the administration and economy of the SS and the concentration camps. He was also involved in the exploitation of Jewish property and the use of forced labor during World War II.
